Odoo shipping and courier integration in United Kingdom
The carriers that move volume in United Kingdom, and what rating, label printing, tracking and cash on delivery each one takes to reach Odoo.
Every carrier we check for a rollout in United Kingdom
14 entries, grouped by what each one costs you to reach from Odoo. The badge is the whole commercial question: shipped with the product, a community module, a paid connector, or a build.
In Odoo
4 of 14Ships with Odoo. Configuration, not development.
DHL Express is the usual choice for UK outbound international air freight and post Brexit EU shipments with customs paperwork. It is one of the ten delivery connectors Odoo 19 ships, so rates and labels work without buying anything.
UPS is widely used by UK manufacturers and B2B sellers for European and transatlantic lanes. Odoo 19 ships a UPS connector, and OCA also maintains delivery_ups_oca on the 18.0 branch as an alternative.
FedEx covers UK international express and now also absorbs the former TNT UK business. Odoo 19 ships a FedEx connector out of the box.
Sendcloud is the one aggregator Odoo 19 ships a connector for, and its documentation names the United Kingdom as a supported shipping from country. Note what this means in practice: Odoo talks to Sendcloud, not to Royal Mail or Evri, so a paid Sendcloud subscription and its own carrier contracts are a required dependency.
Paid connector
7 of 14A paid connector covers this. Licence cost sits outside our fee and is quoted separately.
Royal Mail is the UK universal service provider and reaches 32 million addresses, so it is the default for letters and lighter parcels. Odoo 19 ships no Royal Mail connector, but six paid apps store modules cover it for Odoo 19, most of them built on Click and Drop.
Parcelforce is the express parcel arm of Royal Mail Group and is what UK senders use for heavier and time critical consignments. No direct Odoo 19 connector was found on the apps store, only reach through the AfterShip aggregator, which means an AfterShip account and its fees become a required dependency.
Unconfirmed. Sources agreed, no primary confirmation found.
The largest UK home-delivery parcel network. DHL's UK e-commerce arm merged into Evri in October 2025 and now trades as Evri Premium, so DHL domestic UK volume sits here. No native Odoo connector, reached through an aggregator.
DPD is the UK next day service most often chosen when the customer wants a one hour delivery window and Pickup shop options. Odoo 19 has no bundled DPD connector, so it comes from a paid apps store module for DPD Local.
APC Overnight is a UK next day network built from independent regional depots and is common for B2B and trade counter deliveries. Three paid Odoo 19 connectors are on the apps store.
Palletways is the palletised freight network UK distributors and manufacturers use when a consignment is too big for a parcel carrier. A paid Odoo 19 connector covering UK and Europe is on the apps store.
These are the two multi carrier platforms that fill the gaps in UK coverage, reaching Parcelforce, Evri, InPost and others from one connector. They are aggregators, so the carrier behind them is reached through their account and their fees, not through an Odoo carrier connector.
Custom build
3 of 14No connector we would put in production. This is scoped, priced and built.
DX runs over 110 depots across the UK and Ireland and specialises in irregular dimension and weight freight, secure document exchange and same day courier work that parcel carriers refuse. The apps store returned zero Odoo 19 modules for DX, so this one is a custom build against their API.
Whistl handles high volume UK business mail as a Royal Mail alternative and runs parcels through its Parcelhub brand. The apps store returned zero Odoo 19 modules for either name, so integration is a custom build.
Runs the UK locker estate and, since absorbing Yodel in July 2026, the former Yodel home delivery network too. That makes it one of the largest UK parcel carriers. No native Odoo connector, so it is reached through an aggregator or a build.
Checked Localization notes on this page checked on 22 August 2026.
Rates, formats, thresholds and submission windows change. We configure against the rules in force at build time and confirm every figure with your accountant or tax advisor before sign-off. If a rule moves after go-live, it is a support ticket, not a rebuild. Read more on our Odoo localization service.
How we build shipping for United Kingdom
The delivery method behind the list above. The same four steps on a 10-user rollout and on a multi-company programme, with the depth scaled to the scope.
- 1 Four integrations, not one. Rating, label printing, tracking and cash on delivery reconciliation are separate pieces of work with separate failure modes, and they are quoted separately.
- 2 Carrier accounts confirmed before build. Test credentials rarely carry your negotiated rates, so we validate account numbers and rate cards with the carrier before the connector is written.
- 3 No connector means we build one. Where a carrier has no Odoo integration we build against their API with retry, idempotency and stored responses, and we hand over the code.
- 4 Returns go back into stock. Failed deliveries and returns are wired to real stock moves, so inventory stays true without someone correcting it by hand every week.
What we need from you to quote it
Bring these to the first call and you get a scoped, priced shipping plan for United Kingdom instead of a range.
- โ Your carrier account numbers and the rate card on each.
- โ Your top ten delivery destinations by volume, with typical weight and dimensions.
- โ Whether you collect cash on delivery, and who reconciles it today.
Services behind this work
The rest of the United Kingdom localization detail
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Accounting and tax in United KingdomFull detail, printed as checked.
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United Kingdom country overviewServices, modules, client work and delivery for United Kingdom.
Shipping in other markets we cover
Running the same rollout across borders? These pages carry the same depth for each market, so you can compare before scoping a multi-country phase.
Scope shipping for your United Kingdom rollout.
Send us the list above with your answers against it. We come back with what is configuration, what is a connector, and what is a build, priced before the project starts.